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Murungai Keerai Soup - Drumstick Leaves Soup, this is one of the healthy soup variety that we make in our home when we get this leaves. As I have mentioned in my earlier post, this keerai is rich in iron and Vitamin-A. This is a clear soup kind of recipe which is very very easy to make. My mom used to make this soup whenever I have cold or cough, this will give a bit of relief from it. We can make different varieties of dishes using drumstick leaves. I will post the recipes one by one when I make it next time.

Method
1. Keep all the ingredients ready for making the Murungai Keerai Soup.
a. Peel and wash the shallots and garlic cloves.
b. De-stem the drumstick leaves and wash it.

2. Roughly chop the tomato. Grind all the ingredients except drumstick leaves and tomato to a coarse paste.

3. In a vessel, add the chopped tomato, drumstick leaves, ground paste, salt and four cups of water. Bring it to boil. Let this soup cook till the drumstick leaves are well cooked. Switch off the flame.

Vegetable Rice - If all the vegetables are cut and ready, this is one of the easy lunch box recipe. The major time to make this dish lies in cutting the vegetables. If you keep the vegetables ready the previous night, the work is almost done. This rice is neither the biriyani type nor the fried rice type. It is made in the combination of both :) I just tried this recipe once when I had different left over vegetables which I used for other dishes, so I thought of preparing a rice with those vegetables and it came out really well. So, here is the recipe...

Mutton Keema Vada - Kari Vadai, this is a typical South Indian dish. We can make many recipes using Mutton keema like mutton keema balls, keema matar, keema cutlet etc, but this vada have a unique taste and flavor because of the spices used. This can be served as a starter or you can enjoy it with a cup of tea in the evening. I did not get the minced meat, so I just roughly ground it using a blender. Lets move on to the recipe.Click Here for more Mutton recipes.

4. Make small balls and keep it in middle of the palm and press it to make vada. Deep fry the vadas in batches. Fry it till it is cooked on both sides and it turns golden brown color. Transfer the Vada to a paper towel to absorb excess oil.

Yummy Mutton Keema Vada is ready to serve. Serve it as an evening snack or as a starter.

Sprouted Green Gram Curry, this is such a simple dish to make as a side dish for chapati. This will be good to eat with steamed rice as well. You can make this curry with whole green gram as well. But using sprout make it more healthier. I have used brinjal along with sprout in this recipe, you can also add potatoes instead of brinjal. Adding coconut gives more flavor to the curry.

Vendakkai Thakkali Masala - Tomato Bhindi Masala, this dish is a typical South Indian preparation. Actually, the dish is easy to make but we need real patience in cutting the lady's finger. We need to finely chop the lady's finger to make this dish. Adding tomato will give a little tangy taste to the dish. At the same time, adding coconut will give a nice flavor and taste. Hope many of you might have not tried this kind of recipe. Do give it a try!

Murungai Keerai Kuzhambu - Drumstick Leaves Curry, this is one of the famous dish in Tamil Nadu. This is one of the healthier dish too. I have read that Murugai Keerai is rich in iron and Vitamin A. Even in our home they say, when hemoglobin is low, they ask us to include more murungai keerai in diet. This will make a wonderful combination with ragi kali and goes well with steamed rice too. Murungai keerai is little hard to digest, so avoid eating it for dinner and be little cautious when given to kids.

Method
1. Keep all the ingredients ready to make Murungai Keerai Kuzhambu.
a. De-stem the drumstick leaves.
b. Roughly chop the shallots, tomato and garlic cloves.
c. Soak the tamarind in water for 15 minutes and extract its pulp.

2. Grind the ingredients mentioned under "To Grind" section one by as shown in the picture below.

Lemon Poha - Elumichai Aval, this is a simple and easy breakfast recipe. The procedure is same as we do for Lemon Rice, but the only difference is the way we handle the poha / aval. Many of us might do plain aval upma/poha upma or aloo poha etc. But this will be a little different recipe than the usual poha recipes. I generally like tangy dishes so no wonder I like this dish too. Do give it a try, hope you will also like it.